Title:Information Fusion in Smart Living Technology InnovationsAuthor(s):Mu-Yen Chen,  Edwin Lughofer,  Ken SakamuraAbstract:A “Living Lab” is a system for achieving the future innovation environments in which real-life user-driven researches and innovations will be a co-creation technique for novel products, services and social infrastructures. This concept was proposed by Professor William J. Mitchell, of the MIT Media Lab and he argued that a Living Lab means a user-centric research methodology for sensing, prototyping, validating and refining complicated solutions in real life experiences or situations. A Living Lab takes advantage of pools of creative talent, socio-cultural diversity, and the unpredictability of inventiveness and imagination of end-users. Living Labs rapidly flourish and bring together Europe’s top research institutes, companies and aim to stimulate cooperative projects in the fields of user-centric research and products development. Recently, there are many famous projects like ENoLL, PlaceLab, ExperienceLab, inHaus, CoreLabs, Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, ECOSPACE, LABORANOVA, and WearIT@Work in the European and do the best efforts on innovation living environment researches.Page Reference:2 page(s)Publishing:2015Volume:21

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